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Trombone Emoji
The trombone emoji carries the codepoint U+1FA8A and has been in the standard since Emoji 17.0 (2025). It belongs to Objects → Musical Instruments.
What trombone means
Players reach for these to label what they practise, what a band is missing and what a track sounds like, with 🎸 standing in for rock generally and 🎹 for anyone who makes beats. The family has widened well beyond Western orchestral instruments over time: maracas 🪇 and flute 🪈 were both added in Emoji 15.0 in 2023.
Unicode tags this one brass, instrument and jazz and files it under Objects → Musical Instruments.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1FA8A | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🪊 | |
| HTML decimal | 🪊 | |
| CSS | \1FA8A | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FA8A} | |
| Python | \U0001FA8A | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDE8A | |
| Rust | \u{1fa8a} | |
| Swift | \u{1FA8A} | |
| PHP | \u{1FA8A} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%AA%8A | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AA 8A | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DE8A | |
| Base64 | 8J+qig== | |
| Decimal | 129674 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 17.0 (2025) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “trombone”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “brass”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1fa8aand Enter. - HTML — paste
🪊.
How renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- Apple
- Segoe
- Noto
- System
Frequently asked questions
What does the trombone emoji mean?+
is the trombone emoji, tagged brass, instrument and jazz. Players reach for these to label what they practise, what a band is missing and what a track sounds like, with 🎸 standing in for rock generally and 🎹 for anyone who makes beats. The family has widened well beyond Western orchestral instruments over time: maracas 🪇 and flute 🪈 were both added in Emoji 15.0 in 2023.
What is the Unicode code for ?+
trombone is U+1FA8A. In HTML that is 🪊, in CSS \1FA8A, and in JavaScript \u{1FA8A}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the emoji added?+
trombone got its emoji presentation in Emoji 17.0 (2025). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Musical Instruments in Objects.
Added in Emoji 17.0 (2025)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as trombone.